All regions and all types of communities show high levels of drug use.

Thirty-four percent of non-metropolitan area high school seniors reported illicit drug use in the previous year.

Thirty-nine percent of metropolitan area seniors reported illicit drug use in the previous year.

Though males are more likely to be involved in illicit drug use, especially heavy drug use, the gap between the genders is closing.

The extent at which high school seniors reported having used illicit drugs is slightly higher for whites than for blacks.

568,000 people age 55 or older used illegal drugs during the month of March 2002.

Of 400 women surveyed, thirty-nine percent said the inability to admit that the problem was severe enough to warrant treatment was the number one barrier to getting help. A lack of emotional support for treatment from family members was second with thirty-two percent. And third, at twenty-eight percent, was the inability to provide adequate child-care while in treatment.